溯

See also: 泝

溯	U+6EAF, 溯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EAF

← 溮
[U+6EAE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

溰 →
[U+6EB0]

Translingual

Han character

溯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水廿山月 (ETUB), four-corner 3712₀, composition ⿰氵朔)

Derived characters

𭏺

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 640, character 30
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17975
Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1708, character 1
Unihan data for U+6EAF

Chinese

trad.		溯
simp. ^#		溯
alternative forms		遡泝愬㴑溸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 溯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (屰) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
斥	ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	sŋaːɡs, sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋaːɡs): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 朔 (OC *sŋraːɡ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sù (su⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sò͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): suag⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sù
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sù
  - Wade–Giles: su⁴
  - Yale: sù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
  - Palladius: су (su)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sou³
  - Yale: sou
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sou³
  - Guangdong Romanization: sou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
  - Tâi-lô: sòo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sox
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: suag⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suak
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /suak̚²/

Middle Chinese: suH

Rime
Character	溯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	桑故切
Baxter	suH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/suo^H/
Shao Rongfen	/so^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɔ^H/
Li Rong	/so^H/
Wang Li	/su^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/suo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sou³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sŋaːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	溯
Reading #	1/1
No.	9447
Phonetic component	屰
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	訴
Old Chinese	/*sŋaːɡs/
Notes	泝或體

Definitions

溯

to go upstream; to go against a current
to trace back; to recall

Compounds

上溯 (shàngsù)
不溯既往
回溯 (huísù)
推本溯源
探本溯源
文溯閣 / 文溯阁
正本溯源
沿流溯源
泝溯 / 溯溯
溯洄 (sùhuí)
溯流徂源
溯流從源 / 溯流从源
溯流求源
溯游
溯源 (sùyuán)
溯源窮流 / 溯源穷流
窮源溯流 / 穷源溯流
追本溯源 (zhuīběnsùyuán)
追溯 (zhuīsù)
逆溯

Japanese

Kanji

溯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: す (su)
Kan-on: そ (so)
Kun: さかのぼる (sakanoboru, 溯る)

Korean

Hanja

溯 • (so, sak) (hangeul 소, 삭, revised so, sak, McCune–Reischauer so, sak, Yale so, sak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

溯: Hán Nôm readings: tố

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References

Nom Foundation